If this is your first visit, please click the Sign Up now button to begin the process of creating your account so you can begin posting on our forums! The Sign Up
process will only take up about a minute of two of your time.

I notice for the deluxe packagehttp://www.godaddy.com/hosting/web-h...1001ab&ci=9009
They say unlimited websites. Does that mean that for that price per month, you get unlimited sites??? Can't be.
also...how good is go daddy? who do you prefer for hosting multiple sites?

Simple Mail Transport Protocol, and that is a 1000 per account, not domain.

I use both Linux and windows machines from them, but I also have a mail server off their network, point the smtp and mail dns settings to my mail server... Any scripts I use define the smtp server in.

That is just relay calls from the server, and only mail sent from a page on your site to anywhere except email addresses in your account, count. If everything is sent to a mail account associated with the hosting account, then no worries. They just don't want people setting up mailing list on their sites and trying to blast thousands and thousands of emails an hour out of their systems. They have been blacklisted by spamhaus before, part of their remediation to get removed was a policy and process in place to keep it from happening again.

Not a dealbreaker for most, as the average small business site is less than a hundred emails a day. Any of my clients going over that gets put on my mail server.

I have domain names registered with the site cluttered with adverts and annoying at times. Especially if you buy any thing they try and sell you more and you have to like click 5 or pages to get to the final check out. I have worked with there hosting before and it can be at times very slow.

Go Daddy is a definite NO NO, Really seek ANY host that has cPanel it is much faster, if you have lot's of domains a reseller hosting package is probably your best option in my opinion you will then get a WHM (Web Host Manager) that controls all of the cPanels.

This sounds a little complicated but really it is not. Basically you login to your WHM and create the account for your domain/s then assign usernames and passwords. You can control every aspect of each domain such as bandwidth allowance, web space etc.

Then once you have made the accounts you can login to them individually and do whatever you want. Usual FTP Clients work too such as "Filezilla" or you can FTP from within your own browser. This means you can take your website from your computer to your website and have it running within minutes.

Going back to GoDaddy...
GoDaddy is really good at one thing - Marketing - They market their products as if they were really the best in the world, and they are so convincing that they have countless customers, but I assure you if you go with a host with cPanel then you will never look back.

Go Daddy is a definite NO NO, Really seek ANY host that has cPanel it is much faster, if you have lot's of domains a reseller hosting package is probably your best option in my opinion you will then get a WHM (Web Host Manager) that controls all of the cPanels.

This sounds a little complicated but really it is not. Basically you login to your WHM and create the account for your domain/s then assign usernames and passwords. You can control every aspect of each domain such as bandwidth allowance, web space etc.

Then once you have made the accounts you can login to them individually and do whatever you want. Usual FTP Clients work too such as "Filezilla" or you can FTP from within your own browser. This means you can take your website from your computer to your website and have it running within minutes.

Going back to GoDaddy...
GoDaddy is really good at one thing - Marketing - They market their products as if they were really the best in the world, and they are so convincing that they have countless customers, but I assure you if you go with a host with cPanel then you will never look back.

Best regards
Arran Wood

this is correct but with a flaw. Many hosting companies that provide CPanel are off linux. Nothing wrong with that, but if you are going to run ASP.net you are better off going with godaddy. I am looking into this as a future means of site designs because im familiar with VB and learning C# so it will help with doing database driven sites. However ive never used godaddy with hosting and i cannot find any screenshots or demos on their hosting panel.

I too have wondered what it is meant by unlimited hosting. I was going to point about 50 sites to my account (mostly friends sites ive built and mine, nothing really major just simple 5 page sites with html/css?javascript). I already have 25 domain names from them and as said above it is a pain to checkout, lol. If i kept some of my sites in simple html/css i will go with inmotionhosting.com which runs off CPanel and linux. Ive run CPanel before BUT never with multiple site and am curious to know how to set it up though in CPanel for the time being because they too say unlimited hosting. I couldnt find any fees associated for a "Setup" if you try adding more than one site.